When are you leaving?
I'd love to drive along with you, but there are complications:

1. My natural southerly route to NC starts nowhere near NJ. It is US 15 to Harrisburg, then I-81 from there. But on the trip down I take 81 only as far as Staunton Va. where I crest the Blue Ridge via I-64, then descend it on US 250, and take a couple of byways to US 29, thence to Danville VA, and from there Rt. 86 to Chapel Hill, NC. It all makes for a rousing 12 hour day.

2. I'm probably leaving early on Friday the 5th, to spend five nights in Chapel Hill, NC and hobnob with my friends there - and catch a little rest after those 12 hours. On the morning of Wednesday the 10th, if you come that way, I just might run into you on I-85 and I-40, on the way to Asheville, and thence to Watershed. Maybe you'll be going through from Durham about then? I get on at Hillsborough; then its still about another 5 hours (280 miles to Watershed.

3. My overloaded, top-heavy, old POS Toyota could never keep up with anybody who's in a hurry on those hills that cover the last - what is it? - 80 miles or so.

My cabin mate SteveK will be coming from up your way, hauling his bike by trailer. He plans to arrive in the evening on that same Wednesday, but that might be later than you planned on getting there.

If I get everything done in Chapel Hill in those four days, I will probably return home from the Fest directly this year, for once. That would be on the last Wednesday AM, I suppose - the 24th. Maybe we can share the home-going road as far as Harrisburg. If you go that way - I don't know your route.

I had to go to Marion, VA, this past wed for traffic court (speeding on I95) & came back 107 miles on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It took five hours to go those 107 miles, but it was an absolutely gorgeous ride.

TNRabbit wrote:Robert, you will be within an hour of me when you hit 250.

I had to go to Marion, VA, this past wed for traffic court (speeding on I95) & came back 107 miles on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It took five hours to go those 107 miles, but it was an absolutely gorgeous ride.